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know and understand in ASL

A usage-based study of grammaticalized topic constructions
  • Terry Janzen
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Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language
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Abstract

Topic constructions in ASL are understood to be composed of information identifiable to the addressee that serves as the reference point from which to view the comment or comments immediately following it. This study compares the instances of use in a corpus of conversational ASL of KNOW and UNDERSTAND as lexical verbs and their grammaticalized form and function when they appear as topic markers, and with know as a discourse marker. Topic phrases introduced by know tend to have a wider domain as an identifiable reference point rather than a specific entity or event within the signer’s and addressee’s shared knowledge. Topic phrases introduced by understand tend to introduce an idea that the signer wishes to set as a reference point.

Abstract

Topic constructions in ASL are understood to be composed of information identifiable to the addressee that serves as the reference point from which to view the comment or comments immediately following it. This study compares the instances of use in a corpus of conversational ASL of KNOW and UNDERSTAND as lexical verbs and their grammaticalized form and function when they appear as topic markers, and with know as a discourse marker. Topic phrases introduced by know tend to have a wider domain as an identifiable reference point rather than a specific entity or event within the signer’s and addressee’s shared knowledge. Topic phrases introduced by understand tend to introduce an idea that the signer wishes to set as a reference point.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. The authors’ reflections on Joan ix
  5. Introduction xv
  6. Features of some ergative languages that impact on acquisition 1
  7. Constructional pressures on ‘sit’ in Modern Greek 17
  8. know and understand in ASL 59
  9. Traces of demonstrative grammaticalization in Spanish variable subject expression 89
  10. The company that word-boundary sounds keep 107
  11. Cumulative exposure to phonetic reducing environments marks the lexicon 127
  12. A usage-based account for the historical reflexes of ain’t in AAE 155
  13. Gradient conventionalization of the Spanish expression of ‘becoming’ quedar(se) + ADJ in seven centuries 175
  14. The evidence add ups 199
  15. LOOK up about 225
  16. About the authors 247
  17. Index 249
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.192.03jan

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. The authors’ reflections on Joan ix
  5. Introduction xv
  6. Features of some ergative languages that impact on acquisition 1
  7. Constructional pressures on ‘sit’ in Modern Greek 17
  8. know and understand in ASL 59
  9. Traces of demonstrative grammaticalization in Spanish variable subject expression 89
  10. The company that word-boundary sounds keep 107
  11. Cumulative exposure to phonetic reducing environments marks the lexicon 127
  12. A usage-based account for the historical reflexes of ain’t in AAE 155
  13. Gradient conventionalization of the Spanish expression of ‘becoming’ quedar(se) + ADJ in seven centuries 175
  14. The evidence add ups 199
  15. LOOK up about 225
  16. About the authors 247
  17. Index 249
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